2018 Helen Keller Laureates

By the 1970’s, oncogenes had been identified as genes that cause or predispose to human cancer by being activated or inappropriately turned on. In the early to mid 1980’s, teams led by ophthalmologists Ted Dryja, Brenda Gallie and Linn Murphree along with basic scientists, primarily Web Cavenee, successfully mapped (read more)